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It's LEQ Week!You'll be writing your first Long-Essay Question this week on the cause of imperial expansion OR imperial decline. Remember that you can get help after school Monday or before school Tuesday if you need it then. BUT we also have our Schoology conferences Monday night... Make sure you log in according to your class' scheduled time and participate!Let's check out what's coming up this week: Monday: In class we'll work to prepare material for BOTH choice prompts for the LEQ Essay being written in class on Tuesday.
Tuesday: It's Writing Day! Make sure you have a blue or black pen with you to write and that your outline is turned in at the start of the period. This is the last five points of your rubric!
Wednesday: Today we are going to Peer Review the LEQ Essays we wrote. We'll first "practice" with some sample essays to better understand the rubric and what we should be looking for, then review a peer's essay.
Thursday: Groups are going to work to practice document analysis steps and groupings based on our understanding of India [hence the readings from Tuesday and Wednesday]. This will take us two days so we will continue it on Friday.
Friday: We'll finish our "Indian Women" Document Practice today. If time allows, we'll play a game of Kahoot! to review our learning on Classical Empires.
Remember that Picture Day will be during your Social Studies class (with me!) on Tuesday, September 18th.You received the order form AND reference flyer for online ordering in class. If you misplaced them, I have extra copies! Let's preview the week:Monday: Now that we have finished our Empire Projects and Presentations, let's look at our empires ONE MORE TIME in detail. You'll perform an "Autopsy" of an Empire that you feel you need to spend some more time with. This assignment is in your OneNote digital notebook and should be finished by the time we end class on Tuesday.
Tuesday: Today is Picture Day! When we've finished taking our awesome photos, we'll come back upstairs and finish our "Autopsy" assignment. We also will take a couple of minutes to make sure everyone knows how to access the Digital Textbook if needed.
Wednesday: Today's lesson will be all about the fall of empires. We've looked a lot at their rise and specific features, but let's talk about why we aren't all Romans. You'll work in small groups to create a Public Service Announcement against one specific cause of falling empires. Check out the images below for some early inspo.
Thursday: Today we're going to Quiz over our learning to start class. Don't forget that even Period 1 is fair game because of its foundational significance for Period 2. Things you can study: Charts, Crash Course, Readings, Khan Academy, Quizlet for vocabulary, Kahoot for quick review.
Friday: Today we're going to spend the period starting to prepare for our first major grade essay. We'll be working on the AP Style Long Essay Question or LEQ. Today will mainly about your prompt and what you'll need to include in the essay structure.
I hope everyone enjoyed their extra rest this past weekend!To start our blog post this week, I have one "unofficial" homework assignment for you to do: In AP Courses, students are offered the opportunity to earn college credit by participating in the AP Exam. Our deadline will be addressed for when you have to sign up and register for said exam later in the coming weeks BUT I do want you to start thinking about whether you will be participating in the exam or not. Throughout the school year, all of the hard work and learning that we do in this course will be geared toward the AP World History Exam. If you have any questions at all, please let me know! Let's take a look at what's coming up this week:Tuesday: Today we're going to start the period by reviewing the SAQ Questions you finished over the weekend. Then you'll write an individual response for Q3 and turn that in for some feedback (notice, I didn't say "grade" - it will be graded but the main part of this is simply knowing where to go from here). We'll finish the day by starting our discussion of Models of Empires.
Wednesday: We're going to finish our discussion about how we can better understand empires with the Conrad-Demarest Model. Then, we are going to apply it to the different empires that exist in the Classical Era to better understand its limits.
Thursday: Today we are going to switch gears and look at the different cultural developments during the rule of Classical Empires: religions! We'll be comparing the origins and development of Buddhism and Christianity in their context of imperial rule.
Friday: Today you are going to look at some social change as a result of new religious influence in our Classical Empires. We'll be looking through the lens of Judaism, Confucianism, and Christianity.
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